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1 Samuel - ch 17 v 1 - 20
- And the Philistines assembled their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of terebinths, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
- And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side; and the ravine was between them.
- And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- And he had a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he was clothed with a corselet of scales; and the weight of the corselet was five thousand shekels of bronze.
- And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders.
- And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and the shield-bearer went before him.
- And he stood and cried to the ranks of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I the Philistine, and ye servants of Saul? choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.
- If he be able to fight with me, and to smite me, then will we be your servants; but if I overcome and smite him, then shall ye be our servants and serve us.
- And the Philistine said, I have defied the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
- And Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, and they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
- Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.
- And the three eldest of the sons of Jesse had gone and followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- And David was the youngest; and the three eldest had followed Saul.
- But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
- And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
- And Jesse said to David his son, Take, I pray, for thy brethren, this ephah of parched corn and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren;
- and carry these ten cheeses to the captain of the thousand, and visit thy brethren to see how they are, and take a pledge of them.
- Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of terebinths, fighting against the Philistines.
- And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took his charge and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the wagon-defence; and the host which was going forth to the battle-array shouted for the fight.
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